Senior Firmware Engineer

Found Recruitment Solutions is partnered with an established and sector leading electronics manufacturing company based near Worcester. Our client has been providing high-quality design, testing, and manufacturing services for over half a century. With a diverse and varied client base the business provides services and products to a range of exciting markets on a global scale.

The Senior Firmware Engineer is responsible for end-to-end development of robust firmware and electronics systems. You will be based within the R&D section and become an integral part of a high-skilled, fast-pace and multi-disciplinary design and development team.

This is a hands-on position, from the word go! We’re looking for an experienced and confident operator who is keen to make a direct impact on projects ranging from code maintenance, feature enhancement, to new product development. 

Your Responsibilities as a Senior Firmware Engineer:

• The development, implementation and maintenance of firmware solutions on microcontroller-based systems
• End-to-end firmware and software development directly contributing to product development, product enhancement, sustaining production, regulatory compliance and validation testing
• Electronics circuit design and diagnosis
• Thoroughly debugging and testing to deliver successful product acceptance
• Impacting the design and build test-rigs, software and programs to support automated testing and validation
• To plan and produce deliverables objectives, on-cost and on-time, contributing to the team’s engineering and product development goals
• Generate, create and maintain effective documentations throughout firmware and software development
• Upskill to expand area of expertise taking on emerging challenges and opportunities presented by evolving technology

There is occasional travel requirements and this includes visits to factories, offices, customer locations and suppliers. 

To apply for the role of Senior Firmware Engineer you will have the following background:

• A track record of hands-on firmware development using microcontrollers, preferably within the STM32 and PIC32 ecosystem
• You hold a degree or higher qualification in the field of Electronics Engineering or a relevant field
• Over five years experience in microcontroller and system development
• Experience with both RTOS and bare-metal architectures an advantage
• Proficient in firmware programming using C and C++ and associated development toolchain such as STM Cube, Keil and MPLab to implement design effectively
• Experience with electronic circuit design, and skilled in interpreting and implementing designs.  Experience with Spice and EDA tool an advantage
• Proficient with .Net programming languages such as C#, Visual Basic, Java and/or other object-oriented languages

Working as a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the success of the business objectives, the company pushes autonomy and innovation and there is plenty of scope for progression career advancement.

This role is an exciting opportunity for someone ambitious and driven individual to work for a market leading organisation. The working pattern is Monday to Friday (with an early finish on the Friday) and alongside a generous basic salary of between £50,000pa and £60,000pa the company offers several excellent benefits.